Wireless Devices Known to Work

Table 1 provides a handy resource for checking to see if your wireless driver is known to work on FreeBSD and PC-BSD. If a driver that you are using is not listed, please create a wiki account and add it. Devices should be added alphabetically (then numerically).

If you are unsure of the name of your wireless device, check the output of this command: pciconf -lv | grep wireless or pciconf -lv | grep Wireless. If it is a USB device, use usbconfig instead.

If your wireless device does not work, take a look at the tables on the Wireless Testing page.

Table 1: Wireless Devices Known to Work

Device Name

Driver

i386

amd64

Comments

AR5001

ath

YES

Belkin 54G (F5D7050)

rum

YES

external USB

BCM4311

ndis

YES

NO

Known as Dell 1390 WLAN Mini Card. x64 does not compile driver in ndisgen correctly. Tested on R140747.exe driver from dell.